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I read a short fantasy story (I have never quite grown out of my teenage obsession with Fantasy) which mentions a group of sorceresses that enhance their learning by sending their spirits to other dimensions where time passes more quickly. Thus, their spirits acquire centuries of knowledge while their bodies take the equivalent of an afternoon nap. A way of cramming the learning and experience of several lifetimes into one.
It makes me think of those pictures of 24 tabling poker players on huge monitors, effectively cramming the learning and experience, not to mention the money, of 24 lifetimes into 1, all without leaving this dimension.
Of course it's been mentioned many times that internet players get to play more hands than live players. It still amazes me, though. If Frank Herbert were alive, would he have seen the Mentat training he alluded to vaguely in his Dune novels?
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fenner   Australia. Jun 24 2008 05:50. Posts 2188 | | |
reading articles > 24 tabling robocop style |
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H_   New Zealand. Jun 24 2008 06:00. Posts 159 | | |
If reading articles instead of playing poker made you a poker superstar I'd be rolling in money by now |
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Articles are pretty amazing stuff as well. A primary school physics textbook contains knowledge that took humans millions of years to put together. Poker articles contain knowledge that took people decades to figure out, starting even before von Neumann applied game theory to it. No surprise then, that with the easy availability of information and the chance to put that information into practice 24 times over, players' standards are on the rise.
EDIT: Or rather, standards are on the rise so fast. |
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lachlan   Australia. Jun 24 2008 06:24. Posts 6991 | | |
ahahahah, sorry i kinda skipped this blog post but the last one was simply outstanding, one of the best reads i have had in a long long time, thank you for writing that blog, truly inspirational :D |
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